Minutes PAC Meeting January 2012

Attendance: Maxine Champion, Rebecca Costain, Kathleen Simms, Terri Bowles, Tara Salavich and guest speaker Catherine Chapman from Northern Health.


Financial report given by Kathleen, followed by discussion about hot lunch revenue.

Catherine Chapman, Public Health Nurse from Northern Health, gave presentation on the use of an Epi-pen and peanut allergies. A model Epi-pen was handed around for everyone to test.

Minutes from last meeting in November were found and read aloud. Motion to accept minutes adopted by Terri and seconded by Kathleen.

Old Business:

Discussed murals that are to be painted on the ends of the school. Kathleen talked to Kyle Long, who agreed to the project . Start date sometime in April. Kyle is to have a meeting with Maxine about the project.

Terri to write teacher appreciation letters.

Chairman's Report:

Handouts from Adtronics were passed around for outside sign. Both Thornhill Junior and Skeena Junior have purchased their signs from Adtronics. Sign to be located at Kindergarten end of school. There are options to pay outright or to lease, however the uncertainty of Bingo Funds would make leasing difficult. Terri will contact Silvertip for another quote. PAC will pay School District for installation costs. Overall price of sign around $9000. Decision on spending that much money has been tabled to a later date.


Discussed benches for around playground as another option for spending the Gaming Funds. Need to purchase these by the end of the fiscal year (July 31st).


Scholastic Report:

$3114.39 in books have been purchased by parents which gives the school $908.09 in bonus coupons. Currently the electronic bonus bank has a balance of $461. The recent January order totalled $382.50.


Principal Report:

Carnival begins next week. It is a one day event instead of the traditional week long event. Still looking for parent volunteers to help out with activities. Some activities included sugar cube castle building, door decorating, tobogganing and snow shoeing and a visit by Bonhomme. The 6/7 class to help prep the Bonhomme photo frames.

Possible ski date for February 3rd, note to be sent out to parents.

Basketball begins next week. There will be no tournament this year.

FSA's are continuing.

Gumboots workshop February 16th, put on by CPF. Learn how to dance.

AFFNO DVD's are available to loan out to families until March 1st.

We no longer have a First Nations Support Worker for the school.

New Business:

Cold Weather Policy: there is no District policy, but up to the discretion of each principal.

Pancake lunch for the school: tabled until next meeting

Invite for PAC to shadow Skeena PAC so we can follow what is happening there. January 31st is their next meeting. Terri and Flo will attend as CPF representatives.

Next CPF meeting to be held at Skeena @ 7pm, January 24th. The transformation to a middle school will be discussed. Everyone welcome.

David Block, from City of Terrace, passed on grant information from Treecanada. Maxine passed info onto PAC.


Meeting adjourned @ 9:20pm.

Ecole Mountainview PAC

November 16, 2011, 7:00 PM

Present: Terry Bowles, Tara Salavich, Maxine Champion, Tracey Fell, Kathleen Simms, Nita Back &
Doug MacKenzie

Minutes by Tracey

-Adoption of October meeting minutes motioned and accepted.

-Constitution has been filed with the School District office.

-Motioned and accepted to not hold December meeting as meeting date would fall within the

Christmas Break.

-Biographies of the PAC executive for the bulletin board will be posted if they are emailed to

Tracey by Wednesday November 22.

-Tracey will look into taking over the PAC blog.

Scholastic Rep Report:

-November/December order is approximately $1000.00. Equates to credits of approximately

$300.

-We currently have approximately $700 in the credit bank. Mme Champion is working on

ordering books for the classrooms.

Treasurer’s Report:

-Lunch order deposit was over $3 000.

-Funds in the Gaming Account approximately $22 000.

-General Account holds over $7 500.00.

-We need to spend at least $12 000 of the gaming funds or we risk losing the money. We

require the benches for the playground area, and the reader board is on the wish list. We are

still in the process of procuring pricing for those items.

-A mural or two for the exterior North and South end walls are also on the wish list. Kathleen will

see if she can get a rough idea of costs.

Fundraising tabled to next meeting.

Principal’s Report:

-The Kindergarten and G1 classes have had to be reconfigured to meet school district average

requirements. The School District dictated this change.

-The G4 and perhaps the G5 class are booked for March for the DARE program.

-The Christmas concert is December 8 @ 10:30 am. Motion passed for PAC to pay for the

required busing.

-Report cards will be mailed to all students, will include only attendance records and administrator taught content.


-There is no guarantee that teachers will provide report cards.

-The teachers are only required to provide one hour per day for student teacher meetings.

-Lunch program starts tomorrow.

-There is a new program called Le Prix de Lion. It is to recognize socially responsible older students who are helping out the younger students. It is recognition from the supervisors.

-Mme Fortin will hopefully be here until the winter break begins, Mme Champion is in the process of reviewing resumes for her replacement.

-Discussion of the Teacher’s Appreciation event tabled as there is no new information.

-Signing officers need to see Janett Hansen at NSCU to complete the signing authority documents.

Lunch Program Report:

-The Milk program is proceeding without issue, although the rice milk is hard to find. The form has changed from last year but it is good.
-The Lunch program will be reviewed, it may be necessary to make changes to the frequency and/or the vendors for the next round.

-Volunteers are required for the CPF book fair November 30.

-The CPF familly dance also requires volunteers.

-Nita suggested providing the teachers with $100 each to use towards something extra that is rewarding for the students, to be used at the teachers discretion. Motioned and accepted, a letter will be sent out in January. The teachers will be reimbursed for the expenses once receipts are submitted.

-Purchase of hockey equipment for playground area tabled, discussion ensued.

-Motioned and accepted to provide Mme Begin up to $250 for props for the Christmas concert.



Next Meeting: January 18

Ecole Mountainview Pac


October 19, 2011, 7:00 PM

In Attendance: Terri Bowles, Tara Salavich, Maxine Champion, Kathleen Simms, Rebecca Onstein, Keri Giesbrecht, Crystal MacKenzie, Shelley Carpino, Tracey Fell

Minutes by Tara and Tracey

Adoption of AGM meeting minutes, motioned and accepted

President’s Report:

-Previously open positions have been filled

Secretary - Tracey Fell

Fundraising Co-ordinator - Shelley Carpino

School Planning Rep - Rebecca Onstien

DPAC Rep - position remains open

-Constitution and By-law change : three members required to reach quorum. Motion carried.

-Meetings will be held the third Wednesday of the month, excluding December (Christmas break) and March (Spring Break). Dates as follows:
November 16
January 18
February 15
April 18
May 16
June 20

-Council member biographies to be done for bulletin board and blog. Please submit to Terri by next week, photo and short write up.

-Motion for purchase of laptop, Simply Accounting and MSWord carried. To be used for all PAC business.

-We have gaming funds we need to spend or we run the risk of losing the money as the 3 year limit has been reached. Maxine will look into costs of benches for the playground area. We are awaiting costing on the outside reader board.

Scholastic Rep Report:

-Tara will run again, with help. The program was very successful last year . The format is different this year regarding how the book credits are allocated but the earning potential is similar.

Discussion regarding other fundraising programs run last year, lunch program, Crop, coffee/tea sales, and the raffle.

-The October Crop was cancelled, the first Crop will be: November 19th.

Principal’s Report:

-159 students are enrolled.

-First fire drill held recently.

-First earthquake drill to be held Thursday.

-We are a Peanut Aware school. Discussion ensued regarding seriousness of this issue in our school as we have a student with a life threatening allergy. We will work with our Health Nurse, Kathryn Chapman to do everything we can to increase awareness with both students and parents/caregivers.

-Code of conduct reviewed.

-RCMP to be contacted to see if we can participate in the DARE program.

-Bet Shopper software discussed, 6/7 class had presentation last year.

-Teacher appreciation discussed. May be CPF/PAC joint venture.

-Signing authorities: President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary for both General and Gaming accounts. Motion carried.



Next Meeting: November 16

The next general meeting of the Ecole Mountainview PAC will be held Wednesday February 15th at 7 pm in the school Library.  We will be joined by Skeena Junior Secondary Principal Phillip Baron and Vice Principal Corey Killoran.  Mark your calendars and bring your middle school questions.